> I'm not saying there should be a master plan (I actually don't like those) > the street network design largely seems to be on autopilot with very few opportu

> I'm not saying there should be a master plan (I actually don't like those) > the street network design largely seems to be on autopilot with very few opportunities for a change in direction You can't have it both ways. The solution to a tragedy of the commons is to manage the commons. How can you say that you dislike master plans, but you want a planned design!? Architects pouring their heart and soul into a building's design is a good thing, but city planners pouring their heart and soul into a neighborhood's design is a bad thing!? One reason it's impossible to do anything is because large-scale planning is unfairly villainized as "inefficient big government intervention", and here you are villainizing it, while simultaneously wishing for intervention (from, who else? Government!)